Sasha and Emma - Anarchist Odyssey [Unduh pdf] - Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich

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Ebook Title : Sasha and Emma

Ebook Thickness	: 527 Page
Language	: English

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In 1877 Osip Berkman, as a merchant of the fi rst guild, was granted the right to live outside the Pale, and he moved to Rus sia’s sprawling capital, St. Petersburg, a city previously barred to him. Th ere his business fl ourished. Th e family acquired a lavish house in the city and a country place in a fashionable suburb, with a staff of servants to attend them. Th e children were provided with tutors and sent to a classical gymnasium, a school reserved for the private elements of St. Petersburg society.

Hurt and confused, Goldman left Reitman in Chicago and went alone to her next speaking engagement in Minneapolis. Ben wrote letters begging for forgiveness and a chance to explain. Th ough wary of his apparent connections to the police and his underhanded behavior, Emma could not resist her attraction, and at last wired him to meet her in Minnesota. Ben accompanied her on a fundraising tour out west, helping her set up meetings and sell literature as she lectured in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, and other cities and towns along the coast.

After Sasha and Emma were deported, Fitzi devoted much of her attention to the theater company. Yet she always made time for Sasha, and did her best to encourage sales of Th e Bolshevik Myth. In an advertisement, she described the book as “the fi rst day- by- day record that any one has succeeded in getting out of Rus sia since the revolution.” Berkman, she said, presented his experiences “with great simplicity, but at the same time with terrible realism,” introducing the reader to the leaders Lenin, Trotsky, Zinoviev, as well as to “the humble, the work- a-day people.”

In July 1931, several months before the release date, a reporter from the United Press went to interview her at Bon Esprit, described as “a little white cottage near St. Tropez, with a garden running down to the blue Mediterranean.” Goldman, who had “spent 10 hours a day over many months to complete the [lengthy] autobiography. . . . still considers herself an American, despite her British citizenship by marriage and her British passport.” Th e reporter added that “Mrs. Goldman- Colton” enjoyed a “daily plunge in the Mediterranean” and, except for rheumatism, was “in perfect health.”